NEWS
June 26, 1988 | JOHN J. GOLDMAN, Times Staff Writer
A former Navy technician and self-styled surveillance expert who said that the Rev. Al Sharpton hired him to bug other members of Tawana Brawley's legal team was arrested Saturday after audio tapes he had surrendered to prosecutors turned out to be blank. A U.S. magistrate ordered the man, Samuel McClease, held without bail and scheduled a hearing Monday on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice after prosecutors argued that McClease had "played games with the government." Assistant U.S.